Why should it be in the US TT? There’s nothing American about it, except for it being built there.
T18E2 should have been British at the start.
I mean the exact same can be said for the T-14. Or T-90S ( i hate T-90S)
Then again new patch added the Lynx “built by Germans used by Hungary” and Hungary has it.
So maybe Gaijin just hates Britain ahah.
I’m trying to think of other equivalents now hmm. AV-8A and C, built by Britain for American use. But no need for both to have as GR3 is very similar.
Italian Fireflys annoy the hell out of me, the fact there’s still no British Sherman IC with APDS, that’d make it fair at least.
M4A4, built by America but American doesn’t have any. Mostly because M4A4 is a downgrade to M4 at the same BR and they barely used them but I think America could get maybe one, at the very least an event/premium/BP one, the US 6617th Engineer Mine Clearance company definitely used them, including with a weird early version of the Shermans M1 Dozer blade. Funny to note than in the new WT Mobile game the US has the M4A4.
From here: M4A4 Sherman production variants
+1, it’s a big shame the UK tree hasn’t received this yet
I dont see why it cant be both, as is always my opinion on the british/us shared vehicles. We already see tons of this. Look at the shermans and M3 Lee/Grant for ex
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Realistically, the US should get the 37mm prototype. While the British get the 57mm variant they used.
Similar things could be done with other armoured cars:
Did some reading into this, would be a great vehicle for the UK tree given we actually used it.
Now the damage has already been done I’d just like a C&P of the American one but ideally the US should have gotten the 37mm variant.
Makes sense to see in the UK tree since they actually used it +1
Here’s your picture without the watermark.
Video of Boarhound being unloaded at Southampton docks roughly 1 minute and 40 seconds in.
Undergoing trials at Chertsey in Surrey.
In the back, also in Chertsey.
That last picture is a different turret, could add that one unless that’s the British just slapping a different turret on it?
The vehicle in front with the different turret is a British AEC armoured car.
The Boarhound is tucked away behind and to the left of it.
Oops some reason they overlapped when I looked at them I see it now
There’s actually another 6-Pdr/57mm Boarhound.
So really it could go:
Shouldn’t Pilot #2 be a British event vehicle? It uses an actual 6-pounder as opposed to the M1 so I’d assume that it was created to imagine the vehicle in service with the British-made gun rather than the American one.
Pilot #2 and the M1 57mm production version were shipped to the UK. All 30 production vehicles saw service (but not combat) with Great Britain.
Well yes, but the U.S. would have just chosen the M1 over the 6-pounder had they adopted the Boarhound anyways, so surely the 6-pounder version was a prototype created specifically to develop the vehicle for the British if you get what I mean.
The 57mm M1 is a 6-Pdr, it’s a domestic production Mk V.
Which would beg the question, why was there a concious decision to fit the 6-pounder to a prototype vehicle as well?
I guess the design process went 37mm M6—>57mm 6-Pdr—>57mm M1, but then why bother arming the second prototype with an earlier cannon of the same calibre if the U.S. already had the M1 in production? I don’t understand it very well.
37mm to 57mm is easy. 37mm just wasn’t cutting it anymore and they needed a better gun.
It’s quite common for prototype/pilot vehicles to be fitted with older, already available, guns simply to test the concept. Firing trials were successful and the concept worked so you fit the newer improved 6-Pdr in production vehicles.
Also, from memory the Boarhound pilot was literally fitted with the mantlet, cradle, and gun from the T7E2 medium tank. Which was already fitted with a Mk III. I’ll attach a source later.
Edit:
Yeah I did read about the T7E2, saw the forum suggestion for it.
But I am still conflicted as to whether or not the 6-pounder version should go to the U.S., considering that the vehicle was already chosen for Britain at that point and therefore any prototypes after those orders would also have been developed with the British first and foremost in mind.
I think the British can get a GE premium production vehicle, same as in the American tree, and the 6-pounder pilot as an event vehicle. America can get the 37mm T18 like you said, perhaps as a GE premium so that newcomers can experience a downgraded version that would still be incredibly effective.
